HPCwire's "Breaking News" Log onto HPCwire.com at the beginning and the end of your day for up to the minute news and information in the HPC industry. www.hpcwire.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** March 28, 2003: Vol. 12, No. 12 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 315 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article retrieval instructions at end of this file more@hpcwire.tgc.com For subscription information, email sub@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 73706 ) HP Beats IBM and CA as Management Software Champion ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 104688 ) FEATURES: SDSC ANNOUNCES NEW IBM DATA-ORIENTED SUPERCOMPUTER | | [ ] 104694 ) CLUSTER COMPUTING: CLUSTERWORLD TO SERVE CLUSTERING MARKETS | | [ ] 104703 ) VENDOR SPOTLIGHT: IBM, NVIDIA FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE | | [ ] 104714 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NEXT-GENERATION VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE DEBUTS | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 73707 ) HPCwire's - 2003 People and Organizations to Watch Lee Holcomb, Tom Coleman, Tetsuya Satoh, Ken Neves, Bill Appelbe, Michael Levine, Ralph Roskies, Mark Seager, Chaitan Baru, Alan Blatecky, Jay Boisseau, Russ Miller, Bob Graybill, Christian Bischof, Cray, Shahin Kahn. From Lee Holcomb at Homeland Security to Tetsuya Satoh at the Earth Simulator, this year we've put together a list of must watch HPC luminaries!! FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 104687 ) PNNL COLLABORATES WITH SGI FOR 128-WAY LINUX KERNEL..........4.5K The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and SGI have established a collaboration that will create the world's first 128-way Linux box at the laboratory for use in computational sciences and engineering. [ ] 104688 ) SDSC ANNOUNCES NEW IBM DATA-ORIENTED SUPERCOMPUTER.............8K The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the leading-edge site of the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), has announced that it will deploy a major new data-oriented computer resource. [ ] 104689 ) IBM OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR GOVERNMENT HPC.....................3.1K This week, IBM's Nick Donofrio addressed US government customers in the HPC community at a symposium in Washington D.C. Discussions focused on ways for government agencies and universities to develop short and long term strategies that will maximize and strengthen HPC. [ ] 104690 ) DOE'S ESNET LEAPS AHEAD BY TWO GENERATIONS...................3.9K The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, has completed an upgrade to 2.5gigabits (billions of bits or Gbps) per second and 10Gbps in the highest speed portion of the network. [ ] 104691 ) INDIANA UNIV DEDICATES AVIDD SUPERCOMPUTER FACILITY............8K Indiana University's second teraflop system, the powerful Analysis and Visualization of Instrument-Driven Data (AVIDD) facility, was dedicated this week. [ ] 104692 ) SC2003 ISSUES CALL FOR PARTICIPATION.........................1.9K Next fall thousands of high-performance computing and networking experts will flock to SC2003, the annual high performance networking and computing conference, to see the latest technological tools and learn about new scientific applications. [ ] 104693 ) TERRORISM COMMUNITIES MAY BE REVEALED FROM EMAIL ALONE.......3.5K Terrorists or criminal gangs could give themselves away via their emails -- even if they are communicating in code or only discussing the weather. By looking for patterns in who emails whom, a new technique can quickly identify online "communities" and their ringleaders. [ ] 73708 ) Intel Launches Open Collaborative Research Lab At The University of Cambridge CLUSTER COMPUTING ============================================================ [ ] 104694 ) CLUSTERWORLD TO SERVE CUSTOMERS IN CLUSTERING MARKETS........5.7K In San Jose this June, ClusterWorld will debut as the world's first- ever tradeshow and conference dedicated to the fastest-growing segments in the clustering space: high performance computing, GRID computing and traditional HA computing. [ ] 104695 ) MICROWAY AWARDED GSA FEDERAL CONTRACT..........................2K Microway, a leading manufacturer of custom-configured Linux Beowulf Clusters, announced that it has officially been awarded a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract. [ ] 104696 ) INFINICON SYSTEMS EXPANDS SALES CHANNEL IN HPC MARKET........4.7K InfiniCon Systems, a premier provider of shared I/O and switching solutions for next-generation server networks, announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Appro, a leading developer of high-density, high-performance servers. [ ] 104697 ) APPRO INTRODUCES HYPERBLADE, INTEL-BASED CLUSTER.............3.3K Appro, a leading developer of high-density, high-performance servers, announced that it has demonstratrd its new HyperBlade B221X cluster based on the Intel Xeon processors. [ ] 104698 ) OSC AWARDS SECOND CLUSTER OHIO GRANTS TO STATE FACULTY.........5K OSC's High Performance Computing (HPC) Division announces that Itanium computing clusters have been awarded to five Ohio higher education institutions. [ ] 104699 ) CALL FOR PAPERS: CLUSTER 2003................................5.5K Cluster 2003 welcomes paper submissions from engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government describing their latest research findings in any aspects of cluster computing. [ ] 104700 ) NASA FUNDED FACILITY ADOPTS RACKSAVER BLADERACK SYSTEM.......2.6K RackSaver, a leading provider of rack-mounted servers and supercomputing clusters, announced that one of its BladeRack systems has been acquired by the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. [ ] 104701 ) DELL BLADE SERVERS PROPEL SUPERIOR BIOINFORMATICS AT CSIRO...3.4K Dell announced the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has selected Dell blade servers to boost the computing power in its bioinformatics research facility. [ ] 104702 ) INFINIBAND: THE NEXT STEP IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING.....16.2K According to Voltaire, InfiniBand solutions are helping organizations create cluster fabrics with terabits of bandwidth and build next generation high performance computing systems. [ ] 73709 ) HP and Red Hat Expand Relationship To Offer Customers New Linux Options _____________________HIGH PERFORMANCE ADVERTISEMENTS__________________ [ ] 73710 ) Linux Networx Cluster Used to Investigate Iceland's Weather And Geothermal Energy Sources [ ] 73711 ) Western Scientific Unveils 1U 6-Processor Rack Server ===========================*** CENTER NEWS ***================================ [ ] 95006 ) NEESgrid Team Members Describe Project at NCSA MultiMedia Site ============================================================================== [ ] 73712 ) New E2 from Linux Networx A Powerful Cluster Solution with a sub U density VENDOR SPOTLIGHT ============================================================= [ ] 104703 ) IBM, NVIDIA FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE..........................4.6K IBM and NVIDIA announced the two companies have formed a multi-year strategic alliance under which IBM will manufacture NVIDIA's next- generation GeForce graphics processor units (GPUs). [ ] 104704 ) SUN, TOPCODER ANNOUNCE 16 FINALISTS FOR COLLEGIATE CHALLENGE.4.6K Sun Microsystems and TopCoder, Inc., announced the sixteen finalists, including five Regional Champions, to compete in the upcoming final rounds of the 2003 Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge tournament. [ ] 104705 ) MICROSOFT TO FUND UNIVERSITY VIRUS TESTING COURSE............3.1K Microsoft Corp has stepped up its ties to academia, pledging the funding and know-how to train students at the University of Leeds to write bug-free software, the company said. [ ] 104706 ) FUJITSU'S MIDRANGE SERVER FAMILY CONTINUES SUCCESS...........6.5K Fujitsu's midrange server family continues success in the North American market through impressive benchmark results and industry- leading mainframe-like technology. [ ] 104707 ) HP TO SUPPORT RED HAT LINUX FAMILY...........................5.3K HP and Red Hat earlier this month announced that they have signed an agreement making HP a preferred vendor for delivery of single-point fulfillment and service of the complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux product line on HP industry-standard hardware. [ ] 104708 ) IBM SUPERCOMPUTER POWERS PETROLEUM PRODUCTION................5.6K IBM announced that the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) purchased a new IBM supercomputer that will enable world-class research in areas including energy production and environmental quality modeling. [ ] 104709 ) SUN OPENS TWO ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY CENTER LABS................5K Helping to reduce complexity and costs in the data center, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the opening of two Enterprise Technology Center (ETC) Labs in Menlo Park, Calif., and Hillsboro, Ore., which complement its existing ETC Lab in Burlington, Mass. [ ] 104710 ) BIOITWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO 2003 EXHIBITORS PROFILES........9.3K BioITWorld Conference & Expo 2003 took place March 25-27 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Listed are profiles from BioITWorld Conference & Expo 2003 exhibitors. [ ] 104711 ) 20 STUDENTS WORLDWIDE, IIT WIN IBM'S 2ND LINUX CHALLENGE.....5.2K The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India, has been named the top winner of IBM's SecondLinux Scholar Challenge. The university has been awarded a 16-node IBM eServer xSeries cluster running Linux. [ ] 73713 ) Interoperability without services! AutoParalellization Turboworx.com QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 104705 ) "We need to raise awareness of education on security issues, mainly in writing secure code. What hasn't existed until now is specialist courses to teach good practices for writing secure code and testing it." -- Stuart Okin, Microsoft's UK chief security officer [ ] 9378 ) Quote of the Week Archive [ ] 73714 ) GRIDtoday DON'T MISS THESE FEATURES STORIES IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE! HOW DOES OPTICAL NETWORKING EFFECT THE GRID? SUN MICROSYSTEMS EXPANDS GRID AND NETWORK COMPUTING *** NEWS BRIEFS *** HARDWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104712 ) Xiran's New STM-1000 Servers Provide Breakthroughs...........4.4K [ ] 104713 ) Motorola Demonstrates PowerQUICC III Processor...............4.2K [ ] 73715 ) Recent TOP500(TM) lists show a large growth in clusters, and widespread use of Myrinet(TM) technology. SOFTWARE ===================================================================== [ ] 104714 ) VMware Announces Next-Gen Virtualization Software............7.1K [ ] 104715 ) Compuware Releases OptimalJ 2.2 For Enterprise Solutions.....4.7K [ ] 104716 ) UISpeech Enhances Voice-Recognition Technology...............8.6K [ ] 104717 ) NIST, Team Develop Materials Data Exchange Language..........1.6K [ ] 104718 ) WebMethods CEO To Focus On Software For Homeland Security....3.7K [ ] 104719 ) Global Hauri Ships ViRobot Security Software...................3K [ ] 104720 ) ThermoAnalytics Visualizes Military Vehicle Infrared Energy..5.3K NETWORKING =================================================================== [ ] 104721 ) Motorola Showcases ATM Switching Application.................7.1K [ ] 104722 ) Broadcom Announces New 10-Gigabit Ethernet/Transceiver.......4.9K [ ] 104723 ) ON Technology Launches ON iCommand For Networks..............7.4K [ ] 73716 ) Plug in the power... of W E S T E R N S C I E N T I F I C Technology the Smart Way http://www.wsm.com STORAGE ====================================================================== [ ] 104724 ) Unisys Unveils Software For Windows-Based Data Center........6.5K [ ] 104725 ) Sony Debuts Petasite SAIT-Based Libraries....................5.7K GENERAL INTEREST ============================================================= [ ] 104726 ) IPDPS 2003 Conference Announcement...........................7.9K [ ] 104727 ) HiCOMB 2003 Workshop Announcement............................4.6K [ ] 73717 ) HPCwire on Tour: Photo Gallery Visit the Photo Gallery To See Images from HPC Tradeshows and Conferences SHORT TAKES ================================================================== [ ] 104728 ) Product Watch: Xilinx Ships New FPGA Product Lines..........25.2K NetScout Announces New Family Of WAN Probes. Software Tree Releases JDX 4.0. [ ] 104729 ) Financial Update: CSC Wins $45 Million Subcontract.............6K Sun, webMethods Win Seats On WS-I Board. nStor Reports Improved Fourth Quarter. [ ] 104730 ) Corporate Liaisons: CyberKey Teams Up With Iomega...........18.2K Accelrys And Wiley Collaborate. Oracle Announces Partner Initiative. [ ] 104731 ) People and Positions: Powerllel Appoints New Sales Director.21.5K ISCB Introduces Committee Officers. ANTs Names New President And COO. 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